“Bulletproof” coffee is very trendy in the low-carb and paleo communities.
It involves adding 1-2 tablespoons of MCT oil (or coconut oil) and 2 tablespoons of butter into your morning cup of coffee.
I haven’t tried it myself, but many people claim that it tastes delicious, gives them energy and kills their appetite.
Well… I’ve written a lot about coffee, saturated fat, butter and coconut oil. I love all of them and think they are very healthy.
However, even though “normal” amounts of something are good for you, it doesn’t mean that massive amounts are better.
All the studies showing that saturated fat is harmless used normal amounts… that is, amounts that the average person consumes.
There is no way to know what happens if you start adding massive amounts of saturated fat to your diet, especially if you’re eating it instead of other more nutritious foods. This certainly isn’t something that humans evolved doing.
I’ve also heard reports from low-carb friendly docs (Drs Spencer Nadolsky and Karl Nadolsky. They had low-carb patients with massively increased cholesterol whose levels normalized when they stopped drinking bulletproof coffee.
If you drink bulletproof coffee and have cholesterol problems, then the first thing you should do is try removing this from your diet.
Bottom Line: Try removing bulletproof coffee from your diet. This alone may be sufficient to solve your problem.
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